Medical Malpractice Tragedy Ends With $17.9 Million Settlement

By
Wais Vogelstein Forman & Offutt LLC
|April 14, 2012

A medical misdiagnosis caused a New York mother of three to become legally
blind in one eye and a quadruple amputee. In September of 2008, Tabitha
Mullings presented to the Brooklyn Hospital Center Emergency Room with
complaints of kidney pain. The hospital diagnosed her with a kidney stone,
prescribed some pain killers, and sent Ms. Mullings home. The next day,
Ms. Mullings experienced agonizing pain and numbness. She called 911 two
times, but the FDNY medics refused to take her to the hospital. As Ms.
Mullings condition did not improve the following day, her fiancé
rushed her to the hospital, but a sepsis infection had already spread
through her entire body.

Ms. Mullings fell into a coma and gangrene spread to her extremities blocking
circulation to her hands, feet, and eye. Two weeks later, Ms. Mullings
woke up from her coma and into a nightmare. To her dismay she found herself
blind in one eye and missing her hands and feet. Since the amputation,
Ms. Mullings began taking anti-depressants.

Ms. Mullings talked about the grim reality of her condition:

“I dream about running and jumping rope double Dutch and then I wake
up and it’s not like that . . . I may be the strongest woman on
Earth; at the end of the day someone has to put a pin in my hair.”

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A settlement was reached with the Brooklyn Hospital Center and the city
for $17.9 million - $9.4 million by the hospital and $8.5 million from
the city. Nevertheless, the hospital maintains that its employees did
not do anything wrong and settled for fear of a large jury verdict.

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